Dept. of No, I'm Not Dead
Thursday, 24 July 2025 08:17 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kaffy_rWhere's My Name Tag?
I feel as if I should have one of those "My Name Is" stick-on tags, I've been around here so rarely. Blame the fact that I'm hanging around in my KPop-related Discord community, but I don't ever want to abandon this community.
What can I tell you about the last couple of weeks? A back spasm episode that seems to have finally settled, a lot of time spent in the kitchen, baking and cooking; my stress relievers of choice.
I've been working on the continuation of my most recent fic, because it will. not. leave. me. alone. I've also started adding chapters of my completed NaNo novel over at![[community profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/community.png)
originalkaffy_r , which I hope will kick my original writing back into gear.
Tomorrow I take my friend RS to Skokie Courthouse, where she has to appear on her own (only for one appointment; hereafter, I gather her attorney will be on hand) with regard to a fight with her condo association. Her attorney clocked the association's attorney as being from a firm that specializes in bullying people involved this type of fight. It's possible that if she gets on her hind legs, legally speaking, the association and their attorney will back off.
I agreed to take her because a) it's possible to get there by public trans, but it's a pain and b) I can tell she's unnerved by the whole thing. I'm not looking forward to it myself. It's been six or seven years since I last had to cover any court case up there, and it certainly isn't the zoo at 26th and Cal, but even a nice suburban branch of Cook County Circuit Court has the feeling of depression, worry, and despair that just soak into you. So many people caught in the pipeline to jail and then prison ... and even the civil cases have an air of tragedy ....
But I can choose not to think about that, and instead focus on giving her as much support as I can.
As for the move? I don't know. I'm sinking into a bit of despair for a couple of reasons. Further, deponent saith naught, at least for now.
Oh, and we're getting to watch fireflies out our courtyard window, which is a wonderful thing to end on.
I feel as if I should have one of those "My Name Is" stick-on tags, I've been around here so rarely. Blame the fact that I'm hanging around in my KPop-related Discord community, but I don't ever want to abandon this community.
What can I tell you about the last couple of weeks? A back spasm episode that seems to have finally settled, a lot of time spent in the kitchen, baking and cooking; my stress relievers of choice.
I've been working on the continuation of my most recent fic, because it will. not. leave. me. alone. I've also started adding chapters of my completed NaNo novel over at
originalkaffy_r , which I hope will kick my original writing back into gear. Tomorrow I take my friend RS to Skokie Courthouse, where she has to appear on her own (only for one appointment; hereafter, I gather her attorney will be on hand) with regard to a fight with her condo association. Her attorney clocked the association's attorney as being from a firm that specializes in bullying people involved this type of fight. It's possible that if she gets on her hind legs, legally speaking, the association and their attorney will back off.
I agreed to take her because a) it's possible to get there by public trans, but it's a pain and b) I can tell she's unnerved by the whole thing. I'm not looking forward to it myself. It's been six or seven years since I last had to cover any court case up there, and it certainly isn't the zoo at 26th and Cal, but even a nice suburban branch of Cook County Circuit Court has the feeling of depression, worry, and despair that just soak into you. So many people caught in the pipeline to jail and then prison ... and even the civil cases have an air of tragedy ....
But I can choose not to think about that, and instead focus on giving her as much support as I can.
As for the move? I don't know. I'm sinking into a bit of despair for a couple of reasons. Further, deponent saith naught, at least for now.
Oh, and we're getting to watch fireflies out our courtyard window, which is a wonderful thing to end on.
